The CMU Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2013: Syntax, Synthetic Translation Options, and Pseudo-References

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 70-77

  Ammar, Waleed ^a   Chahuneau, Victor ^a   Denkowski, Michael ^a   Hanneman, Greg ^a   Ling, Wang ^a   Matthews, Austin ^a   Murray, Kenton ^a   Segall, Nicola ^a   Tsvetkov, Yulia ^a   Lavie, Alon ^a   Dyer, Chris ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FORESTRY; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COARSENINGS; FRENCH-ENGLISH; IN CONTEXTS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL TRAINING; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SYNTACTIC TREES; TRAINING DATA;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85122681858     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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